When a bride-to-be is kidnapped by a wedding guest, she willingly goes with her kidnapper in order to escape an arranged marriage and reunite with her boyfriend.

An American Master returns: the author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery sparks "a satirical romp through a country plagued by deceit" (Kirkus, starred review). At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in Northern California. "How much is on hand, would you say?" he asked the teller. "I'll want it all."...

An all-night diner. A cop walks in on a robbery in progress. But what happens next, and what happened just before, will change everything you think you know. Now the building is surrounded. There are fingers on every trigger. And one very intense hostage situation is about to take some extremely shocking twists.

A New Jersey mall security guard who takes his job very seriously has a chance to prove himself when a group of thieves dressed as Santa's helpers seize the mall and take hostages.

Inside man: NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into...

With the help of a federal agent, an NYPD hostage negotiator attempts to rescue tourists who are being held hostage at the U.S. Federal Reserve.

A city cop and a wilderness expert team up to capture a psychopathic thief and murderer who has escaped to the wild.

"When their attempt to rob a casino goes awry and a shootout ensues, Vaughn and Cox are forced to flee on foot and hijack city Bus 657 and take passengers hostage. Now, in a high speed chase, Vaughn will not only have to outwit the police, but he will have to contend with Pope's maniacal right hand man, Dog, in order to make it through the day alive." --

Following a trip to Peru, Brad McCullum slays his mother with a sword and takes hostages, and while the police cope with the situation and try to figure out why he committed the murder, flashbacks illuminate his past.

A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young Gabby Maple, and a handful of others hostage.